Refrigerator



No Model.)

A. B. WOOD.

REFRIGERATOR.

No. 315,105. Patented Apr. 7, 1885.

4, v V INVRNTOR v r/M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT B. \VOOD, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,105, dated April 7, 1885. Application filed December 8, 1884. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. WOOD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to improvements in that class of refrigerators used by grocers, termed box-refrigerators. It is more particularly adapted to hold butter, lard, and such like commodities. It stands about as high as a counter, and, as improved by the application thereto of my invention, is capable of use as a counter while in use as a refrigerator. Heretofore this kind of refrigerator has been constructed with sliding covers overlapping one another when open, the cover moving from one end toward the other end and overlapping.

By my improvements the refrigerator-cornpartments may be open in order to remove any articles therefrom, and at the same time there is always preserved above the sliding covers a' counter on which anything may be placed with safety and security, such as scales, weights, dishes for holding the articles to be removed from the refrigerator, measures, pitchers, 8m.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the refrigerator to which my improvements are applied. Fig. 2 is a crosssection taken in the line as a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of such a refrigerator.

(1 a, &c., are the four walls of the refrigerator. b bbarethe compartments. 0 c, 850., are strips of woodfacing the top and inclosing the fillingsuch as charcoal or other material used as a non-conductor. The interior surface of these compartments may be lined with metal in the ordinary manner. Above these strips 0 c, &c., are placed the strips d d 01, forming projecting ledges around the tops on three sides of the walls, and forming with these strips 0 o, &c., shoulders e e, &c., to support the covers f f f, the top surfaces of said covers being flush with the top surfaces of the strips d d.

g g are strips placed between the receptacles b 6, being flush with the strips 01 d and running back to and supported upon the front side wall of the refrigerator, which wall has, however, no strip on its strip c, like the strip d, but is left open, so that the covers f f f may slide forward toward and pass over said wall. The strips 9 g are left a little narrower than the strips 0 c placed underneath them, immediately upon the partition-walls of the refrigerator, in order that the covers f f may freely slide back and forth in shoulders e e, &c., as may be required. A series of brackets, h h, &c., is placed upon the upper edge of this front wall, over which the sliding covers pass.

On the top of these brackets is laid a narrow strip of wood, 3, its top surface being flush with the top surfaces of the three strips of wood dd (1 on the other three top edges. The counter j is now placed upon the refrigerator, extending from this strip 21 onto the refrigerator about a third or more of its distance, and for convenience is hinged midway of its width at points 7c k, and divided into sections, as seen at j j, for greater convenience in throwing back portions thereof whenever. it is required to get at the whole of the compartments-such, for-instance, as cleaning its'walls or bottom, or to fill same with large tubs or boxes of provisions. A board, Z, is inserted at the top portion of the refrigerator, lying immediately beneath the counter and underneath the sliding covers, which causes the refrigerator to be completely inclosed when the covers are shut, which board may be removed at the time of cleaning out the refrigerator, and when a portion of the counter is thrown back for that purpose.

The remaining portions of the refrigerator exhibited in the drawings are old and well open to remove articles therefrom. At the same time, if it is necessary to get at the compartments in order to clean them, the counter can be thrown back on its hinges and the covers f f f and board It lifted out. These parts can be easily and immediately replaced after the operation of cleaning or refilling the compartments with provisions.

I clain1--- zco 1. In a refrigerator, the combination of a sliding cover with an overlapping counter, substantially as described.

3. In a refrigerator, the combination of sliding covers f, and overlapping counter j j j, hinged at k, substantially as described.

2. In a refrigerator, the combination of a ALBERT B. \VOOD. 5 sliding cover with an overlapping counter, Witnesses:

such counter being hinged in sections, sub- RoBT. H. MARSHALL, stantially as described. JOHN W. KOUVALINKA. 

